How To Install libcohttp-ocaml-dev on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcohttp-ocaml-dev on Debian 12.
What is libcohttp-ocaml-dev
libcohttp-ocaml-dev is:
Cohttp is an OCaml library for creating HTTP daemons. It has a portable HTTP parser, and implementations using various asynchronous programming libraries.
It has concrete implementations for many targets, including lwt, lwt-unix, lwt-jsoo.
You can implement other targets using the parser very easily. Look at the IO signature in lib/s.mli and implement that in the desired backend.
You can activate some runtime debugging by setting COHTTP_DEBUG to any value, and all requests and responses will be written to stderr. Further debugging of the connection layer can be obtained by setting CONDUIT_DEBUG to any value.
This package contains development files.
There are three methods to install libcohttp-ocaml-dev on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libcohttp-ocaml-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libcohttp-ocaml-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcohttp-ocaml-dev
Install libcohttp-ocaml-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcohttp-ocaml-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcohttp-ocaml-dev
Install libcohttp-ocaml-dev Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libcohttp-ocaml-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcohttp-ocaml-dev
How To Uninstall libcohttp-ocaml-dev on Debian 12
To uninstall only the libcohttp-ocaml-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcohttp-ocaml-dev
Uninstall libcohttp-ocaml-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcohttp-ocaml-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcohttp-ocaml-dev
Remove libcohttp-ocaml-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libcohttp-ocaml-dev configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcohttp-ocaml-dev
Remove libcohttp-ocaml-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcohttp-ocaml-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcohttp-ocaml-dev
Dependencies
libcohttp-ocaml-dev have the following dependencies:
- libangstrom-ocaml-dev-ziad1
- libbase64-ocaml-dev-gtqr6
- libcohttp-ocaml-r9rm2
- libre-ocaml-dev-x1xl9
- libsexplib0-ocaml-dev-dj6s4
- libstringext-ocaml-dev-9mut8
- liburi-ocaml-dev-fraz4
- ocaml-4.13.1
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcohttp-ocaml-dev package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
